THE LIBERAL CATHOLIC PEERS AND THE . BURIALS
BILL.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your last number, in commenting on the voting in the House of Lords on the Burials Bill, you state, " The Liberal Roman Catholic Peers all voted for the clause, namely, the Mar- quis of Ripon, Lord Emly, and Lord O'Hagan." Now the truth is, that there are twenty-six Roman Catholic Peers of Parliament, —Duke : Norfolk. Marquises : Bute, Ripon. Earls : Fingall, Granard, Denbigh, Kenmare, Orford, Gainsborough. Viscount : Gormanston. Barons : Camoys, Beaumont, Stourton, Vaux, Petre, Arundel, Dormer, Stafford, Clifford, Lovat, De Freyne, Howard, Acton, O'Hagan, Emly, Gerard. Lords Ripon, Beau- mont, Camoys, Clifford, Dormer, Emly, Kenmare, O'Hagan, Stafford, Vaux, according to the Times, voted for the clause, and Lord Granard paired for the clause with Lord Gormanston against. Lords Bate, Denbigh, Orford, and Gainsborough were Conservatives before they were Catholics. Lord Arundel votes with the Conservatives. Lord Gormanston and Gerard were created by Lord Beaconsfield. But are the remaining seven not
[We should have restricted our words thus, "All the official Liberal Roman Catholic Peers." The three we mentioned had all been in office.—En. Spectator.]
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